日期：2025-05-08 Burgess added doubtfully: I suppose it leaves the way into the bedroom clearer - if the ladies wanted to leave their wraps.Perhaps. But there might be another reason. Burgess looked inquiring. The screen hides thechest now, and it hides the rug belo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 The discovery, he said kindly, must have been a great shock to you.Oh it was, sir. Ill never forget it. The valet rushed into speech. Words poured from him. He felt,perhaps, that by telling the story often enough, he might at last expunge it from hi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 You said this ridiculous accusation. But it is not that, you know.I did not kill Arnold Clayton.Call it then a false accusation. Say the accusation is not true. But it is not ridiculous. On thecontrary, it is highly plausible. You must know that ver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 And the telegram was sent by one or the other of them?It wouldnt surprise me.Major Rich and Mrs. Clayton were having an affair together you think?Lets say I shouldnt be surprised if they were. I dont know it for a fact.Did Mr. Clayton suspect?Arnold... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 Anybody noticed anything at all odd about Richs manner that evening?Oh well, you know what people are. Once a thing has happened, people think they noticed a lotof things I bet they never saw at all. Mrs. Spence, now, she says he was distrait all th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 Do not think. This business that took your husband to Scotland, how much do you know aboutthat?Not very much. There was some dispute over the restrictions on selling a piece of land whichbelonged to my husband. The sale had apparently gone through a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 Abbie says you will help me - She looked at him gravely and inquiringly. For a moment he stood quite still, scrutinizing her closely. There was nothing ill-bred in hismanner of doing it. It was more the kind but searching look that a famous consulta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 He had been severe with ce cher Hastings on this point, and now here he was, behaving much ashis friend might have done, obsessed with beautiful women, crimes of passion, jealousy, hatred,and all the other romantic causes of murder! He wanted to kno... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 The papers vary a good deal in their accounts. I shouldnt like to guarantee that the facts as statedare more than sixty per cent accurate.That is probably a conservative estimate, murmured Poirot. Thank you, Miss Lemon, for thetrouble you have taken... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-05-08 THE MYSTERY OF THE SPANISH CHEST Punctual to the moment, as always, Hercule Poirot entered the small room where Miss Lemon, hisefficient secretary, awaited her instructions for the day. At first sight Miss Lemon seemed to be composed entirely of ang... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-04-18 V The end of Christmas Day was like the end of most Christmas Days. The tree was lighted, a splendid Christmas cake came in for tea, was greeted with approval but was partaken of only moderately. There was cold supper. Both Poirot and his host and h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-04-18 IV Christmas dinner took place at 2 p.m. and was a feast indeed. Enormous logs crackled merrily in the wide fireplace and above their crackling rose the babel of many tongues talking together. Oyster soup had been consumed, two enormous turkeys had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-04-18 III The evening was a busy one. Holly and mistletoe had been brought in in large quantities and a Christmas tree had been set up at one end of the dining-room. Everyone helped to decorate it, to put up the branches of holly behind pictures and to ha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-04-18 II The temperature in the long drawing- room at Kings Lacey was a comfortable sixty- eight as Hercule Poirot sat talking to Mrs Lacey by one of the big mullioned windows. Mrs Lacey was engaged in needlework. She was not doing petit point or embroide... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-04-18 THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING I regret exceedingly... said M. Hercule Poirot. He was interrupted. Not rudely interrupted. The interruption was suave, dexterous, persuasive rather than contradictory. Please dont refuse offhand, M. Poirot. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Twenty-five LEGACY IA Mr. Robinson has called to see you, sir. Ah! said Hercule Poirot. He stretched out his hand and picked up a letter from the desk infront of him. He looked down on it thoughtfully. He said: Show him in, Georges. The letter was o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Twenty-four POIROT EXPLAINS IMrs. Upjohn, wandering through the corridors of Meadowbank School, forgot the exciting sceneshe had just been through. She was for the moment merely a mother seeking her young. She foundher in a deserted classroom. Julia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Twenty-three SHOWDOWN IIn one of the smaller classrooms Miss Bulstrode looked at the assembled people. All the membersof her staff were there: Miss Chadwick, Miss Johnson, Miss Rich and the two younger mistresses. Ann Shapland sat with her pad and p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Twenty-two INCIDENT IN ANATOLIA Mrs. Upjohn was sitting by the side of the road overlooking a deep ravine. She was talking partlyin French and partly with gestures to a large and solid-looking Turkish woman who was telling herwith as much detail as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Twenty-one GATHERING THREADS II want to talk to you, Eileen, said Miss Bulstrode. Eileen Rich followed Miss Bulstrode into the latters sitting room. Meadowbank was strangelyquiet. About twenty-five pupils were still there. Pupils whose parents had f... 阅读全文>>